Tonight at 8, in an encore broadcast of the Boston Symphony, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violinist Gil Shaham are the soloists in the Double Concerto by Brahms, and Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."

March 8 is International Women's Day. Classical music is a field with a pretty thick glass ceiling, so we spent the day highlighting the women who have chipped away at it. Here are just a few of the incredible women - past and present - who make great music, and who make music great.

From NPR Music

By her own admission, composer Florence Price had two strikes against her.

"To begin with I have two handicaps – those of sex and race. I am a woman; and I have some Negro blood in my veins," is how she began a 1943 letter to Serge Koussevitzky, the revered conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She added later, "I would like to be judged on merit alone."